stazione is the title of a public intervention conceived by Palestinian artist Emily Jacir for a collateral project of the 53rd Venice Biennale titled Palestine c/o Venice in 2009 but never realised. Jacir’s initial idea was to translate the names of each of the 24 vaporetti stops along route #1 of the water bus route into Arabic and to place the Arabic translations on all the stops next to their Italian counterparts. 
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The project by Giulio Paolini entitled Quadro generale (Overview) was developed by the artist between 2010 and 2012, and intended to be placed near the south steps within the Sully Wing of the Louvre Museum in Paris, which commissioned the piece. Although the artist's proposal had been approved in its final version in the summer of 2012, the initiative was not followed through for various reasons, including the appointment of a new director at the museum. The installation that Paolini had designed included a geometric structure in stainless steel, built around a square hanging from the ceiling in the center of the space. It contained fragments of plexiglass engraved with the same geometric designs which would have been placed on the surrounding walls, as if they had been scattered by an explosion of the nucleus. This complex structure, by its nature variable and cryptic although clearly structured, represents – as Paolini himself stated - the very idea of the museum: "some sort of 'big bang' of continued proliferation destined to an inexorable, vertiginous fragmentation until it almost exhausts much like a 'black hole' that prevents us to decipher it."
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Mario Cresci started between 1977 and 1979 a meaningful and interesting experience that was interrupted because of the lack of support from the institutions and can therefore be conceived as an unrealised or at least unfinished project. In Basilicata, where the author was already developing the project Misurazioni, a photographic research with a social and anthropological approach, Cresci started teaching in an unusual school. A design school, founded by Regione Basilicata in application of the law n. 285 of June 1st 1977, devoted to the vocational training in craftsmanship techniques. A school that aimed at using creativity as an economic resource. Unfortunately the project was interrupted almost immediately, remaining therefore unrealized, since the institutions suspended their support to the school.
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